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shadow copies for off site disk
Hi all, I want to create a offsite disk to cover those catastrophic scenarios like fire/theft etc. I own a readynas duo populated with two disks. My plan is to remove one of the disks, take it of...
Well as I said, it runs a lot faster if you connect the USB drive to a PC connected to a wired network. Probably about 3 hours for a full backup if the network was gigabit; about 5 if it is fast ethernet. A simple robocopy script running on the PC is one way to automate it.
shem wrote: ...200GB took 16 hours to backup to a USB disk (http://www.iogear.com/product/GHD335C250/) plugged into the front USB port.
You can also do incremental backups with either with frontview or with robocopy. Though there is some value in writing everything, since USB drives do fail, and it is bad to discover that when you are trying to recover your data.
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